Just surprized you aren't aware of how strongly most of the world has craved flavor at times.Not too far back, farmers in this country were surviving on corn and bread during the winter.

I can't imagine.I can develop a craving in a week.

I tried malta goya recently.Didn't like it.Tried it again, very cold on a hot day, working.Loved it.Tried it with spicy food, even better.Went crazy trying to find it after that.Finally found it in a vietnamese grocery with imported japanese sodas.

ygmir wrote:I'm assuming you're making sense, or some point here? I just can't follow......please, elucidate, for us, " the masses".

Spice is valuable now, in our current world, full of variety.

Imagine how driven you would be if you had no choices.That was the state of the world once.

It drove exploration and trade like nothing else.

of course. any cursory knowledge of world history tells us the spice trade drove much of the events of historic times.

the dots I can't connect are your last few statements and how you got there from Whoosh not liking peanut butter.I love following, or trying to, your logic path here. but, you've lost me.dangremember my feeble mind is just skipping along smelling flowers, while being passed by a mental jaguar..........